The staff for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity, the fourth and final part of the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime, confirmed on Saturday that Yūki Kaji plays Toshihiro Hitsugaya’s Complete Bankai version. Viz Media streamed an English-subtitled clip of the character’s first appearance in episode 44.

The anime is running for four cours with breaks in between.

The anime covers the rest of the original manga up through its ending. The Thousand Year Blood War arc is the final arc of the manga, and covers volumes 55-74.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity premiered on July 25 on the TV Tokyo channel at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT). It then ran on BS TV Tokyo on July 27, AT-X on August 2, Hiroshima TV and Niigata Broadcasting on August 4, and Sendai Broadcasting on August 10. The anime began streaming on Japanese streaming services on July 26 at noon.

jo0ji performs the opening theme song “I-BULL” and singer-songwriter 9Lana performs the ending theme song “Rasen” (Spiral).

Viz Media and Fathom Entertainment screened in advance the anime’s first three episodes in U.S. theaters on June 25-29. The episodes screened in Japanese with English subtitles and with the English dub, and included an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation with creator Tite Kubo, chief series director Tomohisa Taguchi, and series director Hikaru Murata. The anime screened in 943 theaters.

The anime’s first cours (quarter of a year) premiered in October 2022, and ended in December 2022 with a one-hour special that combined the anime’s 12th and 13th episodes. Viz Media is streaming the anime on Hulu in the U.S. The anime is streaming on Disney+ internationally, and Ani-One Asia is streaming the series in many Asian countries.

The anime’s second cours premiered in the United States on Hulu, in Latin America on Star+, and in select other countries internationally on Disney+ in July 2023.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 – The Conflict premiered in October 2024 and concluded in a one-hour final episode in December that same year.

Sources: Bleach anime’s website, Comic Natalie

The official X/Twitter account for WWWave Corporation‘s Continuer boys-love manga label announced on August 12 that Umiko Seto‘s Osake ni Yowai Andō-san (The Alcohol-Lightweight Andō-san) manga has an AnimeFesta anime adaptation in the works. The announcement did not reveal more details on the anime. Seto drew the below illustration to celebrate thenews:

The manga’s story centers on the titular Andō, a serious-minded and no-nonsense systems engineer at work. His co-worker Kikuchi has tried for a year to get a smile out of him to no avail, until an opportunity allows him to see Andō being an alcohol lightweight, and the stoic man shows a new clumsy, cheerful, and seductive side to him.

Seto launched the manga in WWWave Corporation‘s ComicFesta website under the Continuer label in October 2024. Suiseisha published the manga’s first compiled book volume in November 2025, and will release the second volume on September 18.

WWWave Corporation owns the ComicFesta web manga service, as well as the AnimeFesta anime programming block. AnimeFesta (formerly Anime Zone and ComicFesta Anime) has produced short anime adaptations of more than 30 manga from ComicFesta in the past eight years, with many of the manga being adult or risqué in nature. The first AnimeFesta anime was On a Lustful Night Mingling with a Priest (Sōryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni…), whose Japanese title has led to AnimeFesta anime sometimes being called “Sōryo-waku” (Sōryo-type) by fans. Most of the anime series have two different versions: a “broadcast” version (the censored version aired on television), and a “premium” uncensored version distributed online. WWWave Corporation releases many of the anime titles in English on its Coolmic website, and recently began releasing anime on OceanVeil.

Sources: Continuer’s X/Twitter account, Animate Times

The summer issue of Shueisha‘s Jump Giga magazine announced on Monday that Kentarō Yabuki and Saki Hasemi‘s To Love-Ru manga will have a new volume titled To Love-Ru Parade on October 2. The volume will compile previously uncollected side story chapters of To Love-Ru and To LOVEru DARKNESS.

To Love-Ru received a new 25-page one-shot story on the same issue as the announcement on Monday. The story celebrates the series’ 20th anniversary.

The To Love-Ru manga premiered in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2006, and Shueisha published the series in 18 volumes. 

The To LOVEru DARKNESS sequel manga launched in Jump SQ. in 2010 and ended in March 2017. The series also has 18 volumes.

Both manga inspired two television anime series adaptations, as well as several OVAs. Sentai Filmworks has released all four television anime adaptations in North America.

Source: Jump Giga summer issue